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Arab Regime Credibility Hanging by its Last Invisible Thread

(LONDON) - On 25 September I wrote a piece headlined Obama speaks at the UN… Goodbye to peace.

Palestine and Israel Big Subjects at Arab Extraordinary Summit

"Israeli aggressions, blockade and the Judaization of Jerusalem require clear and crucial decisions" - Prime Minister Ismail Haneya, Hamas

(GAZA ) - The Prime Minister of the deposed Hamas government in Palestine, Ismail Haneya, is urging Arab leaders during a special meeting in Libya today, to make a decision on the Palestinian cause.

Creatures Creep Back to the Oregon Coast Aquarium

The event will collect food and money for Food Share of Lincoln County and the Lincoln County Animal Shelter

(NEWPORT, Ore.) - After a one-year hiatus, the Oregon Coast Aquarium’s annual Halloween event, “Creatures of the Night,” will creep back into the Aquarium with a slightly different format. There will be a gentler event during the day for younger goblins during “Creatures of the Day,” with face painting, games and candy from 10 am – 4 pm. The Aquarium will then close its doors from 4 to 6:30 pm and quietly mutate into an ominous landscape with haunted caves and foggy courtyards summoning the more fearless ghouls for the annual soiree of the sinister, “Creatures of the Night” from 6:30 to 8:30 pm Saturday, October 30.

Safe Kids Willamette Valley Honored as Coalition of the Year

(SALEM, Ore.) - Safe Kids Oregon honored Safe Kids Willamette Valley as the recipient of the Safe Kids Coalition of the Year Award on Sept. 28th at the Regional Safe Kids Training in Portland, Oregon. The award is given to the coalition in the state that shows exemplary contribution to preventing unintentional injury in children through their local Safe Kids coalition efforts.

Man Arrested on Drug and Child Endangerment Charges in Salem

What started out as a domestic disturbance call turned into a drug arrest.

(SALEM, Ore.) - A 29-year old Salem man was arrested on October 7th after officers located Heroin, Methamphetamine, evidence of illegal narcotics distribution and firearms in his house. He was charged with a number of drug and child endangerment-related charges and booked into the Marion County Jail.

The incident began early in the morning on October 7th when patrol officers were called to 3831 Homestead Rd S regarding a domestic disturbance.

Overnight Vandalism Spree in Tigard

Anyone with information is urged to contact the Tigard Police at 503-718-COPS

(TIGARD, Ore.) - Residents in Tigard woke up this morning to find a rash of vandalism which occurred overnight in neighborhoods located in the southeast area of the city. Tigard Police has documented ten reports so far with the potential for additional discoveries of vandalism as the day progresses.

`I am Palestine` - Resistance Movement Against Israel Grows, Considers Options

The time is here for the movement to consider what it really has to do.

(SALEM, Ore.) - There is a new message in the fight to free Palestine from over sixty years of oppression and occupation. The message is strength and the format is resistance.

Coast Guard evacuates crewman from fish processing vessel, Coos Bay

(COOS BAY, Ore.) - The Coast Guard medically evacuated an injured crewman from a fish processing vessel that was 40 miles southwest of Coos Bay, Ore. at approximately 12:10 a.m., Friday.

The Coast Guard was notified 11 p.m., Thursday that Mamadou Konato, a 46-year-old male, had injured his hand in machinery while working on the 276-foot fish processor Pacific Glacier.

Gut Microbes Promote Cell Turnover by a Well-Known Pathway

U of O biologists show good bacteria modulate an important signaling pathway where colorectal cancer takes root.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - Microbes matter -- perhaps more than anyone realizes -- in basic biological development and, maybe, they could be a target for reducing cancer.

Zebrafish were exposed under laboratory conditions to specific microbes to define how microbial signals interact with the Wnt pathway to promote cell proliferation in the gut.

Expert Reveals Little Difference Exists Between Instance of Rape On the Frontier and Today

Women in the wild west didn’t have it so good.

(MEADVILLE, Pa.) - Sexual assault ran rampant in the Old West, as career options for women were split evenly between being a teacher, a nurse or a prostitute.

More importantly, the numbers of rapes that went unreported or unprosecuted back then aren’t much different than those today, according to one expert.